Hofrat Dr. Ludwig Franz Mohr

Photo von Ludwig Mohr 1940
Ludwig Mohr 1940 (Landesarchiv NÖ)

Personalia

Born:

August 20, 1899, Vienna

Died:

December 7, 1983, Perchtoldsdorf

Profession:

District Governor

Persecution:

Imprisonment 11.03.1938 - 24.05.1938 in Eisenstadt,
Dachau concentration camp 24.05.1938 - 18.02.1939,
Imprisonment 18.02.1939 - 09.10.1939 in Vienna,
Buchenwald concentration camp 09.10.1939 - 12.11.1940,
Released 1938,
Imprisonment 09.09.1944 - 27.09.1944 in Vienna

KZ Number:

14283, 8154

Memberships

K.Ö.H.V. Rugia Vienna

Curriculum Vitae

Ludwig Mohr spent his youth and student years in Vienna. After graduating from high school in 1918, he was drafted into the k. u. k. Army in 1918 and discharged in 1919. He then completed his law and political science studies in Vienna. He joined the student fraternity Rugia

During the Anschluss, he was arrested on March 11, 1938 and held in custody in Eisenstadt until May 24, 1938. He was then taken from there to the Dachau concentration camp, from where he was transferred to Vienna for interrogation on February 18, 1939. On October 9, 1939 - after the interrogations were completed - he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp

Entlassungsschein von Ludwig Mohr aus dem KZ Buchenwald
Entlassungsschein von Ludwig Mohr aus dem KZ Buchenwald

After the war, Ludwig Mohr moved to the Lower Austrian provincial government as a civil servant following his rehabilitation. On May 14, 1945, he was initially appointed provisional head of the district administration of Wr. Neustadt and was then appointed district governor on July 3, 1946. He held this office - as a personality respected even by the Russian occupying power - until his retirement in 1964.

Ludwig Muhr's health was very poor due to his time in the concentration camps. After the death of his wife, he moved into the Perchtoldsdorf retirement home, where he died in 1983. He leaves behind a daughter.

Places

Persecution:

Residence:

Raugasse 3 (Wiener Neustadt)

Citations

Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 219/220.

Landesarchiv Niederösterreich

Ludwig Mohr

District Governor
* August 20, 1899
Vienna
† December 7, 1983
Perchtoldsdorf
Dismissal, Detention, Concentration camp